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Tilt - Alan Cumyn
Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he's blindsided by the... -
The Troubled Man_ A Kurt Wallan - Henning Mankell
SUMMARY: Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval o... -
The Tail of Emily Windsnap - Liz Kessler
For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the wa... -
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
Amazon.com Review"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the cit... -
The Split Second - John Hulme; Michael Wexler
SUMMARY: Now thirteen years old and still a Fixer in the parallel universe called the Seems, Becker Drane is called upon to repair the damage caused by an enormous bomb planted in ... -
The Sorcerer of the North - John Flanagan
SUMMARY: Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fie... -
The Red Queen_ Sex and the Evol - Matt Ridley
Two fascinating questions lie at the heart of The Red Queen: Why is Homo sapiens a sexual species, and what implications does this have for human nature? That man is sexual may see... -
The Price of Everything - Eduardo Porter
Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar.... -
The Presence - John Saul
From School Library JournalYA?Dr. Katharine Sundquist is hired to work on a short term archaeology project in beautiful Maui. It seems to be an ideal situation for her and her 16-y... -
The Power of the Legendary Gree - Catherine George
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can't believe she's come to Greece on her *own*, but she had to escape the wedding fever that's gripped her ...